Spiritual Ear Exam After Hours

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Welcome to Masculine Journey After Hours. We are glad that you're with us this week. And again, I know I say this a lot, but we're glad that you're with us every week. It's just, it makes our day knowing that somebody out there is willing to listen to us. Both of you. But we can't find anybody. Thanks, Mom.

We love you, Mom. So, we're at the after hours. It's a little looser. Well, the other show's kind of loose, too, but it's a little more loose, you know, than the regular show. But anyway, we are... Listen, they might have you on the show.

That's true. If you're a listener, you might get on the show and you might get asked a question or two. That you're not prepared to answer. Out of the blue from out of left field. Yeah, from out of left field, which was a topic that was a good topic. But anyway, our topic this week is spiritual ear exam, right?

Or spiritual hearing test, right? And so, we can go a lot of different ways. And we have done a lot of different ways with this topic, because we kind of left it up to God to say, okay, God, what are you working on each one of us with this?

Right? And so, we get to see where God decided to take us. Well, he decided to take Danny back up to where he lives instead of to the studio. But we still have a clip from Danny. And so, Andy's going to set up the clip from Danny, because it's one of your favorite clips. You like it.

Yeah, I do. I've had it played before, but it's an Andy Griffith clip. So, being my name's Andy, I got elected to do Danny's clip for him. But it's the episode from, it's about Mr. McBevie. And Mr. McBevie is this, what Andy perceives as a fantasy type of character that Opie's dreamed up. Opie's told him about him, says he walks amongst the trees and wears a silver hat and has smoke coming out his ears, all this stuff. And Andy just doesn't believe him.

And then, this is the backside. Andy actually gets introduced to him. And it really has to do with, though, Andy, whether, you know, in listening to Opie, whether he really believed him and just how that interaction went.

Andy? No, I didn't spank him. Oh, well, that's good.

Just not necessary. He learned his lesson. Good talking to is the best thing, making him stay in his room. I didn't do that either.

What did you do? I told him I believed him. You told him you beli... But Andy, what he told you is impossible. Well, a whole lot of times I've asked him to believe things that to his mind must seem just as impossible.

Oh, but Andy, this silver hat and the jingling and the smoke from the ears, what about all that? Oh, I don't know, Barnes. I guess it's a time like this when you're asked to believe something that just don't seem possible. That's a moment that decides whether you got faith in somebody or not.

Yeah, but how can you explain it all? I can't. But you do believe in Mr. McBeavie. No, no, no.

I do believe in Opie. Mr. McBeavie. Hello, somebody called? McBeavie at your service. What can I do for you, mister?

Walk around in the trees. Silver hats. You're jingled.

You can make smoke come out of your ears, can't you? Mr. McBeavie, I can't tell you how glad I am to meet you. I certainly am. I didn't catch the man.

Oh, I'm Andy Taylor, Opie's dad. So Wayne, you had something you wanted to say about that? Yeah, I mean, it kind of goes along with what I was talking about a little bit earlier while I was listening to that. Kind of reminded me of the guy that I was praying with.

If you listened to the last show, if you didn't go back and listen to the last show, you'll know what I'm talking about, right? But the guy that I was praying with, the reason why I was praying with him was he was telling me about a nightmare that he had had about a month and a half ago, about this dark entity that was in his house. And, you know, one of the things we do as parents, right? Our kids have these nightmares or dreams, and we tell them, I'll go back to bed. You're just having a nightmare. But I fully believe, because I've experienced and have seen a lot of different things, that God speaks to us through our dreams.

He always has and continues to do so. But because of that faith in believing what this man was saying, as I began praying for him and praying against the spirit that is in his home, because that was what God was showing him, was that there was something in his home that was terrorizing him and his son. As I began to pray for this man, again, there was an attack on me with this needle in the back of my throat that this spirit trying to get me to stop praying. To most people, right, that sounds crazy. But it's real.

It's real. When I was listening to that very similar thought is that I'm going to start adopting the term, I had a McBeavie moment, right? Meaning a time that, you know, if you would listen to how we all talk with each other about what God does in our life or how you talk from the stage at a boot camp on what God's doing, if you don't have the ears to hear it, it can almost seem unbelievable.

Right? You know, what Robby experiences in the morning with what God does with him is so incredibly cool. But if you don't know Robby, you don't know his heart, you'd say, I don't know about that. Or Rodney's story or Jim's story or whoever's story, that when God intercedes, we have to have this faith element. And that's what I loved about that clip was that it reminds us that we have the McBeavie moments with God, when others may not fully understand it, but they trust in it because A, it's God, and B, they know your heart, they can hear it from your excitement. Bob, I'm sure you've probably seen some of that at a boot camp as well, where, you know, guys just kind of come alive with some of the stories that are shared from your stories. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, I have my own story about that, actually.

I mean, I was at my first boot camp. I was sitting in the hot tub there at Eagle's Wings Lodge, and I was looking out. I'm like, you know, God, I'd love to have my own house, and someday I'll get my own hot tub. And it kind of hurt this chuckle, like, okay, yeah, sure.

You know, you'll get what you want there. And then next thing I know, well, where am I now? I'm in a house, and it came with a hot tub. So it's just like one of those things where I didn't believe. At that time, I didn't even have a new house yet, right? I mean, so we were looking for a house, and what do you know, God, I didn't believe, God, that I'd get a new house to begin with at that boot camp. And I met a realtor there that was able to get us a house. But yeah, God just kind of, like, made this mention that, you know, don't worry, I'll take care of it.

It's been taken care of. Now, disclaimer, I don't expect everyone that goes to a boot camp will come home with a, you know, have a house with a hot tub. So you're special is what you're saying. Yeah, I think what the point of that whole story was to rub in the fact they have a hot tub. That's what I heard.

At their boot camp, and we don't. I really think you hear better than I do. I think that was the whole point, wasn't it, Bob?

I actually heard Charlie Brown. He got a hot tub, I got a rock, but at least I can stand on my rock. You can't stand on your rock.

I would point out that if you live in Ohio, you would deserve to have a hot tub. I'll be coming to your defense. Bob, we'll let you talk now.

We've been talking over you. That was not the point of the story. Yeah, I know.

I didn't think it was. But I want you to get that part in there. That's good stuff, though. I mean, we do that whole, I mean, Opie truly, you know, received what he saw like a child.

Obviously, it's what he really saw. But we've talked a lot. We've done shows on the whole fact that a lot of times we miss out hearing from God and experiencing God because we're so sophisticated. We don't come with this childlike wonder. I tell the story about whenever I go to Yosemite and the three gifts that God gave me. Every time I share that, I think the people think I'm stupid, just crazy stupid. But they were so real to me. And then whenever God showed me after the fact how, you know, they correlated with the trip that Don and Dad had took me on, I was like, you know, I can't argue with that. I'm going to tell that whether people receive it or not, I don't care. But I know that I, you know, heard from God there. So you would do somebody quite a few times. Hey, it's, it's my hot tub moment.

You know, Yosemite is just about as good. A different twist on the same theme that I heard in that is that there are a lot of times when we are begging God to talk to us, and he doesn't. We don't hear from him when we really want to. And he's basically showing us that, you know, we need to step out in faith on what we last heard, that you don't, he doesn't want us to ask him, can I take this step now? Can I take that step now?

He wants you to go in the direction he last sent you, and then he'll redirect you. But thanks, Jim. Appreciate that. Andy, you have a microphone in front of you. You want to set up your talk or your actual clip? Your clip from Windtalkers? Yep.

Yeah. So this is from Windtalkers. When we were talking about this, started thinking about how the enemy comes after our communication or the enemy comes after the communication and anytime, anytime there's a war going on, you know, that's the first thing that they try to take out or intercept communication. In this case, the Windtalkers is about the Navajo Indians. They were called Code Talkers.

They got involved in World War II when we were fighting the Japanese. And there was a lot of interception of communication. And the whole Navajo, they did, there was a Navajo person on each end of the communication to do the translation. And it just, in this clip, though, you'll probably, most of it won't be coherent. They'll either be talking Navajo, Japanese, you hear a little bit of English, a lot of bombs and stuff going on. This is what war sounds like a lot of times. But again, as what you're listening to, the message got through because the guys were listening on both ends and able to interpret.

Come on. Target reference, dog one, south seven hundred, elevation zero five zero. Right, two hundred, up, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. Six hundred, up fifty, fire for effect.

Withdraw! So sorry about that clip because it really was more of a visual clip but you had to use your senses and listening to that and what you heard was multiple coordinates for artillery being called in and more specific to where you actually hit the target but you know we live in a world where we're trying to hear all you hear all these voices and you want to really hear what God has to say and sometimes there's a spirit to spirit communication with God that actually kind of goes as the wind talker you know you're praying in the spirit that you're talking to God and and and he's talking to you and it bypasses the enemy that's just kind of what I saw in that in that clip yeah that's actually a really good movie yeah I didn't know that that existed yeah you know back in World War II before I watched the movie and so how cool it was that you know you have an enemy that can interpret you know you can intercept yep what you're wanting to say and so you find a way to go around that and still meet your objective yep you know I believe in the full power of God I'm not afraid of the enemy but there are times that I choose not to pray out loud right because I just don't want to tip my hat right yeah my my hand to him right I don't need to God can hear my thoughts he can hear through my spirit yep right and so I choose to pray that way just because there is an enemy that's active and wants to try to to intercept and try to steal away yeah right yep well Harold you have a clip so I'm gonna go ahead and get to your clip and so this is from somebody that's actually older than you there's in this movie right yeah this is from the movie Oh God and in this particular scene George Burns playing the role of God is talking with John Denver and one of the reasons that I liked it is because I think it goes two ways in communication which always this is a real way that communication occurs hello where are you turn around well how do you like it I'm going on a trip to spend a little time with animals I like animals and sometimes I don't spend enough time with them we failed didn't we what are you talking we did terrific I gave a message of encouragement you passed it along now we'll see you did good we both did good what covered you think anybody got the message you think we have enough apples in the world apples we got all the apples we need your Johnny Appleseed you drop a few seeds and you move on the seeds are good they'll take root I gave you great scenes the best I lost my job you know there are other cities other supermarkets everybody thinks I'm a nut Galileo Pasteur Einstein Columbus you're in good company hold on well better be going aren't you coming back no ever whatever comes we'll see sometimes now and then couldn't we just talk I'll tell you what you talk I'll listen yeah that that's something that we really have to rely on is the fact that God will listen when we talk but the other side of the coin is that we have to listen when he talks and we have to be careful to know that it is him that's been mentioned earlier and one of the ways that I think we can know that is that we've got the written word he's given us the written word and if he will not contradict that so if you're hearing something that goes against what's in the Bible it's not coming from God it's coming from somewhere else and while I got the mic one of my favorite things to say is that we've got two ears and one mouth and that's the way we need to use them and I've got a little scripture here that kind of backs that up Proverbs 18 13 if one gives an answer before he hears it is his folly and shame so the the point was made earlier about oftentimes we're not really listening we're we're saying in our head would you please shut up so I can talk and we need to be listening to hear what the other person is trying to communicate to us or we're going to be silly like Proverbs says I did notice you were staring at me the whole time that you were talking about that so no no I looked at Jim as well oh so it's Jim and I okay Errol you guys are good it's just Jim and I yeah guilty is charged Jim were you gonna say something uh no okay well you have a clip I do have a clip talk about your topic don't come back and do Rodney's clip alrighty uh Biden's a great juxtaposition with Andy's this is not war this is comedy oh and if you haven't heard this it's about time because this routine is even older believe it or not than I am and then Harold is so but it is perfect in describing what happens in interpersonal communication sometimes I'm not really sure it's older than me to be quite honest it is I'd looked it up about a month better we'll go ahead and play it straight racing they give ball players nowadays very peculiar names funny nicknames but I'm not as funny as my name Sebastian didn't what he brought yes yes yes absolutely yes now on the st louis team we have that who's on first what's on second I don't know is on third that's what I want to find out I want you to tell me the names of the fellas on the same team I'm telling you who's on first what's on second I don't know is on third you know the fellas names yes well then who's playing first yes I mean the fellas name on first base who the fellow playing first base for st louis who the guy on first base who is on first what are you asking me for I'm not asking you I'm telling you who is on first I'm asking you who's on first that's the man's name that's whose name yeah well go ahead and tell me who the guy on first who the first base who is on first have you got a first baseman on first surgery then who's playing first absolutely when you pay off the first base for every month who gets the money every dollar of it why not the man's entitled to it who is yes so who gets it why shouldn't he sometimes his wife comes down and collects it whose wife yes after all the man earns it who does absolutely well what I'm trying to find out is what's the guy's name on first base oh no no what is on second base I'm not asking you who's on second who's on first that's what I'm trying to find out don't change the players I'm not changing nobody take it out there watch the guy's name on first base watch the guy's name on second base I'm not asking you who's on tickets on first I don't know he's on third we're not talking about him how did I get on third baseicha mention his name if I mention a third base was named who did I say is planned third no who's playing first first well what do you wanna do now watch the guy's name on third base what's on check I'm not asking you who's on check who's on first I don't know he's on third there I go back on third again well I can't their names. Will you please stay on third base Mr. Broadhurst?

Now what is it you want to know? What is the fella's name on third base? What is the fella's name on second base? I'm not asking you who's on second. Who's on first? I don't know.

Third base. You know as many times as you hear that you still gotta laugh. It is such a, it's genius. It really is the way that they do that. And it is a, that's the way we talk sometimes. We're saying one thing, we're hearing our head something, they're hearing something entirely different. And we don't recognize it because we're not really listening to the responses. Yeah and that's a good example where the enemy can get in the way. You know they're both speaking truth but neither one can hear each other.

They're both absolutely right in what they're doing but they don't have the ears to hear one another. So Rodney I want to get to your clip before we we're done with the show and so you only have a like a minute to set it up. Do you think you could do that?

50 seconds. Yeah so this is from desperate our despicable me. I'm like spacing out because you got me all going someplace else but basically you've got a guy who has a heart change by adopting these girls and he in this clip is to the point where he finally has this heart change and this book that they always want him to read he introduces a book that he has wrote and it's this very very sweet change in his heart towards these girls that have meant everything to him. Okay girls time for bed. Oh come on you want a story.

Three sleeping kittens. Oh no sorry that that book was accidentally destroyed maliciously. Tonight we are going to read a new book this one is called one big unicorn by who wrote this oh me I wrote it oh look it's a puppet book. Here watch this. This is gonna be the best book ever.

Not to pat myself on the back but yes it probably will be here we go. One big unicorn strong and free thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and torn his whole life upside down.

Hey that one looks like me. No what are you talking about these are kittens any relation to persons living or that is completely coincidental. They made him laugh. They made him cry. He never should have said goodbye and now he knows he could never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart. Yeah he has a heart change there from the three little kittens as he puts it the girls that he adopted and where I got to all this was a roundabout way because when you first talked last week oh we're gonna have a hearing exam instead of the eye exam I'm like hearing comes faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God is the first thing that jumped into my mind and then it was back what I hear all the time is what Andy was always he was like Mr. Sun talk you know he was it was on that Sun ship and it was like just for the all the right things beat into me you know from Sun ship because that's where God had me and just had me really tuning into that so that's what I always hear is that I'm a son so in a different study that I was doing this week it just took me into Galatians 4 and 4 through 7 that when the fullness of time came God sent forth his son born of a woman born under the law so that he might redeem those who are under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons because you are sons God also sent forth the spirit of his son into our hearts crying Abba father therefore you are no longer a slave but a son and if a son then an heir through God and that's where the whole adoption it just played with me this week I'm thinking man I've been adopted by the greatest father ever and this clip is him receiving love from who he adopted and I'm the opposite I'm receiving love from the one who adopted me and I just I just been bathing in that all week and it's been wonderful thank you appreciate it Bob you've got about a minute left here we'll get going you want to tell us a little bit about your boot camp again coming up here in June and then a little bit of how they can get information on it yeah so centralohioabootcamp.com has got one in June 9th through the 12th and then there's one in September and advanced I think it was that 9th through 11th and then we have one in October as well another basic so yeah go to centralohioabootcamp.com and check it out are you guys going to have uh jacuzzis we will have a pond to jump in and jacuzzi to get in as well all right thank you Bob we appreciate you joining us thank you we're looking forward to seeing you in September and maybe we'll see some of you guys back in November we got a boot camp coming up November 17th through 21st go to masculinejourney.org to register if you have a topic you'd like for us to talk about please send it to us through Facebook you can reach us at masculine journey on Facebook on Twitter just about any one of the social media platforms we're on you can look up masculine journey and reach out to us we'd love to hear from you love to hear any comments anything that you would any clips you would recommend and most of all we'd love to see you at the next boot camp please go register this is the Truth Network